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then i asked the department of defense to set up a hospital ship comfort and sent hundreds of people and canines and morticians and all these people to help them. i held those individuals, i saw them. i was the person in charge and i was very upset. everybody else in the state of wisconsin, all the other congressional delegations voted for that and congresswoman baldwin did not. that bothered me. five years after that, i was there and held those people and saw them. still to this day of talks me. >> a chance to explain your votes, congresswoman? >> i am outraged that tommy thompson would question my patriotism. he has personally profited from 9/11. politicalrying to profit from 9/11. honorvoted nine times to the victims and first responder is a 9/11. i voted three times to allow the congressional gold medal for those families. i voted and worked very hard to pass a 9/11 health care bill. i voted to hunt down osama bin laden and the perpetrators of 9/11. words are very important. and i believe you should never politicize 9/11. when a resolution on the eve of a hotly contested election
then i asked the department of defense to set up a hospital ship comfort and sent hundreds of people and canines and morticians and all these people to help them. i held those individuals, i saw them. i was the person in charge and i was very upset. everybody else in the state of wisconsin, all the other congressional delegations voted for that and congresswoman baldwin did not. that bothered me. five years after that, i was there and held those people and saw them. still to this day of talks...
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>> defense, my question in defense is and the sequestration i would never have gone along with, i felt congress just was not doing their job by performing committee but when defense cuts, yes, look at it, but my question is not how much can we cut from defense. i want to continue how much we need to defend this country. but let's talk about another department, department of energy. started in the carter administration in the 1970's to get us, the main purpose was to get us off of foreign oil. here we are billions upon billions of dollars later and we are no closer than when we started. last year alone the department of energy spent over $90 billion on green energy boondoggles. stop and think. if you have a department designed to get us off of foreign oil and decades later it has not done its job, would you believe that there's been over a trillion dollars spent by the department of energy since it was started, but we got to look at all of those. all of the above. >> mr. casey? >> vernon, just a quick rebuttal on earlier points and i'll answer your question. number one, when tom smith w
>> defense, my question in defense is and the sequestration i would never have gone along with, i felt congress just was not doing their job by performing committee but when defense cuts, yes, look at it, but my question is not how much can we cut from defense. i want to continue how much we need to defend this country. but let's talk about another department, department of energy. started in the carter administration in the 1970's to get us, the main purpose was to get us off of foreign...
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we provide air and missile defense for all the commanders. we provide logistical support for all the geographical combatant commanders. we provide signal communication support to all the geographical combatant commanders. these are key critical missions that people tend not to think about. as we go forward. so it's important that you understand that. we provide key for aviation, fires, information operation, civil affairs, military police, wmd defense capabilities. corps of engineers who are pretty busy today and doing many other things. we have critical components of the military space program. for example, we are responsible for everything from the satellite on down to the ground station in providing communications based on space elements. a lot of people don't know that. that's the army's responsibility. as we look ahead, obviously cyber is one of the more important things we have to remember as we go forward. as i look at cyber there's a couple things, you have national level and operationalical and how we develop this for the future and
we provide air and missile defense for all the commanders. we provide logistical support for all the geographical combatant commanders. we provide signal communication support to all the geographical combatant commanders. these are key critical missions that people tend not to think about. as we go forward. so it's important that you understand that. we provide key for aviation, fires, information operation, civil affairs, military police, wmd defense capabilities. corps of engineers who are...
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if there is any special flavor, it is probably defense. it depends on defense to a greater degree than any other state except for alaska's. there is a special flavor on defense, a special flavor on special spending. the hampton roads off of virginia beach and the localities. >> what are the demographics of the state of virginia? >> as with most population states, there are many states in 1 parity have a northern virginia, which is about one- third of the population, it produces 30% of the votes of some more. that population is national and international in scope. it is the highest income region. it has the people with the highest education levels in the state on average. it tends to be the most democratic region. if they go down to hampton roads, that is a heavy defense industry area. it is both white-collar and blue-collar, also has a large african-american population. and it also has a relatively low nativity rate, that is people not necessarily born in virginia, due to the influence of the navy. the navy brings lots of people in from ac
if there is any special flavor, it is probably defense. it depends on defense to a greater degree than any other state except for alaska's. there is a special flavor on defense, a special flavor on special spending. the hampton roads off of virginia beach and the localities. >> what are the demographics of the state of virginia? >> as with most population states, there are many states in 1 parity have a northern virginia, which is about one- third of the population, it produces 30%...